What is EDTA? What are EDTA titrations? What types of indicators are used in EDTA titration? Explain clearly the working of these indicators?

Asked by REMI SIMON JOSEPH9th April 2014, 3:00 PM

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Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, widely abbreviated as EDTA, is an aminopolycarboxylic acid and a colourless, water-soluble solid.
EDTA titrations are complexometric titrations.
Complexometric titration (sometimes chelatometry) is a form of volumetric analysis in which the formation of a colored complex is used to indicate the end point of a titration. Complexometric titrations are particularly useful for the determination of a mixture of different metal ions in solution. An indicator capable of producing an unambiguous color change is usually used to detect the end-point of the titration. Disodium EDTA is commonly used to standardize aqueous solutions of transition metal cations.
Common indicators are organic dyes such as Fast Sulphon Black, Eriochrome Black T, Eriochrome Red B, Patton Reeder, or Murexide. Color change shows that the indicator has been displaced (usually by EDTA) from the metal cations in solution when the endpoint has been reached. Thus, the free indicator (rather than the metal complex) serves as the endpoint indicator.

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